Net profit was 8.796 billion pesos ($442.6 million), up from 4.657 billion pesos a year earlier, driven by "a non-cash foreign exchange gain," the company said. Same-store sales at its ubiquitous Oxxo convenience stores increased 3.0 percent in the second quarter, and the company opened 483 net new stores. At the end of June, Femsa had a total of 17,246 Oxxo stores.

MONTERREY, Mexico, July 27, 2018-- Fomento Económico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V. announced today its operational and financial results for the second quarter of 2018.. 8.6% revenue growth at FEMSA Consolidated ...

MONTERREY, Mexico, July 09, 2018-- Fomento Económico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V. is pleased to invite you to participate in its Second Quarter 2018 Conference Call that will be held on:. Friday, July 27, ...

Mexican bottler and retailer Fomento Economico Mexicano said on Thursday it will expand a pilot program that uses its ubiquitous Oxxo convenience stores as package pick-up points for Amazon.com Inc. "We are in the process of taking the number of stores that are part of the Amazon pilot to a significantly bigger scale," Juan Fonseca, investor relations director for the company known as Femsa, said in a call with analysts. Shares of Femsa were up more than 4 percent to a high of 179.79 pesos despite results that showed net profit plunged to 2.02 million pesos ($110,692) in the first quarter from 3.29 billion pesos in the year-earlier period.

Mexican bottler and retailer Fomento Economico Mexicano said on Thursday first-quarter net profit fell 78 percent, hurt by an increase in the value of the Mexican peso versus the U.S. dollar. Net profit ...

Mexico's Coca-Cola Femsa , the world's largest Coke bottler, said on Friday it had decided to indefinitely shut down operations in a town in southwestern Mexico after being crippled by violence and organized crime. The firm, a joint venture between Fomento Economico Mexicano (Femsa) and Coca-Cola Co, said it was shuttering operations at its 160-employee distribution center in Ciudad Altamirano in Guerrero state. "The lack of conditions necessary to operate in an efficient and safe way in this area of the state of Guerrero, as well as the recent unwarranted aggression towards one of our workers, led to the company taking this decision," Coca-Cola Femsa said in a statement.

Mexican bottler and retailer Fomento Economico Mexicano (Femsa) on Tuesday said its net profit fell more than 70 percent in the fourth quarter, hit by the revaluation of assets in its Venezuelan Coca-Cola bottling operation. Net profit in the October-December period was more than 1.83 billion pesos ($93 million), down from nearly 6.7 billion pesos in the same period of 2016. Femsa controls Coca-Cola Femsa, the world's largest Coke bottler, which reported a $1.2 billion net loss in the fourth quarter, hampered by a change in the reporting of its results in Venezuela.